Chandra Discovers Dwarf Galaxy Colliding Into NGC 1232
A new study reveals that a giant cloud of superheated gas, which is about 6 million degrees, is likely the result of a collision between…
A new study reveals that a giant cloud of superheated gas, which is about 6 million degrees, is likely the result of a collision between…
Using embedded dye molecules in a liquid crystal matrix, an international team of researchers slowed the speed of light to less than one billionth of…
Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered a new pathway in insulin resistance and show that a newly discovered small-molecule inhibitor can interrupt this pathway and…
Berkeley Lab researchers have solved a long-standing puzzle, discovering that in the stacking of graphene monolayers subtle misalignments arise, creating an almost imperceptible twist in…
Bound for Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft reached the halfway point on August 12, 2013 and should arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Once there,…
A newly published study details how researchers used human heart precursor cells to get a decellularized mouse heart to beat again. Pittsburgh – For the…
Using the 45m Telescope at Nobeyama Radio Observatory and the 10m ASTE telescope, scientists were able to make high-sensitivity video imaging observations of the full…
The latest ScienceCast video explores the attraction astronomers have to class of exoplanets called “hot Jupiters.” ScienceCasts: The Strange Attraction of Hot Jupiters An exotic…
In a new study, Stanford scientists explain how disorder at the molecular level can improve the performance of plastic solar cells, which could to the…
A new discovery in southwest France reveals that Neanderthals were the first in Europe to make standardized and specialized bone tools. Two research teams from…
A newly published animal study from the University of Michigan shows high electrical activity in the brain after clinical death, providing the first scientific framework…
Researchers at Syracuse University have developed a new synthetic pathway to tailor the internal microstructure of nanomaterials. Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences…
Researchers are in the final stages of testing p27, a mammary gland progenitor marker that they believe could lead to the commercial development of a…
Mars Express has provided scientists with a radar view of the southern highlands of Mars, showing what lies beneath the surface. There is much more…
Using the FORS1 instrument on the 8.2-meter ESO Very Large Telescope, astronomers captured a new image of galaxies NGC 799 and NGC 800. This beautiful…
A newly published study explores how the recently discovered Higgs boson may provide a possible “portal” to physics that will help explain some of the…
In this newly released image Hubble views a young star being born in the gas, dust, and ices of the dark cloud LDN 43. Don’t…
A UC Berkeley has linked sleep deprivation to junk food cravings, finding that high-level brain regions required for complex judgments and decisions become blunted by…